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COVID, Quickly, Episode 10: Long Haulers, Delta Woes and Barbershop Shots

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.2 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

0:20.1

To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.

0:22.7

.jp.j. That's Y-A-K-U-Lt.C-O.jp. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:31.0

Hi and welcome to COVID quickly, a scientific American podcast series.

0:44.8

This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic.

0:47.8

We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus and the disease.

0:53.2

We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.

0:57.4

I'm Tanya Lewis.

0:58.6

I'm Josh Fishman.

0:59.8

And we're Scientific American's senior health editors.

1:02.6

Today we'll talk about clinics for long-haul COVID patients.

1:06.1

The rise of the Delta variant and what you can do about it.

1:09.3

And using barbershops to get vaccines to communities that need them most.

1:15.7

Early in the pandemic, there were some reports of people with odd symptoms such as fatigue

1:20.4

and memory issues that continued long after their acute infection.

1:24.5

Now these long haulers are getting some specialized help.

1:28.9

More and more data is coming out about long COVID. That's serious physical and mental effects that can last half a year after

1:34.1

people first get infected. The latest study came out last week in the journal nature medicine.

1:39.1

Researchers looked at health records for a few hundred people in Bergen, Norway. That was almost everyone in the

1:45.1

city diagnosed with COVID during several months in 2020. Overall, 61% of the group had symptoms

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